The Genealogy of “Gender”
by Mark BauerleinAbigail Favale joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Continue Reading »
Paradise Here and Now
by Samira KawashThe resurgent nationalisms of recent decades have been one response to the homogenizing impulses of globalization—but nation is not the solution to homelessness in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane. Continue Reading »
The Lost World of Jazz
by Peter TonguetteSeen today, Jazz on a Summer’s Day shimmers with its glimpses of a world in which people, for all their differences, shared so much. When was the last time so many people got together with such geniality and grace? Continue Reading »
The Art of Grief
by Veronica ClarkeArt gives us structure and clarity; it helps us make sense of the disorder of life. Will Arbery’s Corsicana is a weird play, but you will feel warmer for having seen it—and maybe a little wiser, too. Continue Reading »
Given for Love
by Victor Lee AustinDespite its flaws, Louise Penny’s latest novel is ultimately a book of fundamental human goodness. It encourages us to look at a child, as happens at a significant New Year’s Eve moment, and not see “Down syndrome,” but a person with a name—a person given for us to love. Continue Reading »
A Tom Wolfe for the 2020s
by Peter J. LeithartThe Index of Self-Destructive Acts is the Big New York Book of the 2020s, as Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities was for the 1980s. Continue Reading »
Tom Hanks Gets Empathy Wrong
by Carl R. TruemanIn declaring that it is inappropriate for a straight actor to play a gay man on screen, Hanks negates the importance of the shared humanity that makes him empathetic in the first place. Continue Reading »
Permanent Things
by Elizabeth C. CoreyAs a young First Things reader, I found it both consoling and inspiring to be part of a community of people who believed, as I did, that the Christian faith is both beautiful and true. Continue Reading »
The Last Twentieth-Century Film
by Miles SmithCommitment makes Maverick the oldest and truest type of Naval officer; the oldest and truest type of American; and finally, the oldest and truest type of man. Continue Reading »
What Are Bookstores For?
by John-Paul HeilGood bookstores invite us to contemplate truths that lie beyond our everyday concerns. Continue Reading »
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